by Jackie Bailey | Jan 23, 2012 | Uncategorized
Our good friends, Rachael and Tim and their bubba Super Sebastian, are moving to Indonesia in two sleeps. Boo! Hiss! It is so very easy to get caught up in the day-to-day-ness of life – sleep, eat, feed baby, sleep, eat – that it is easy to think that a...
by Jackie Bailey | Jan 11, 2012 | Babies
Ellie is sound asleep, thumb in mouth. It’s 8.07 pm. She went to bed at 6.00 pm after a day of record awake time and five feeds rather than four, which I am regarding as progress since the last three weeks have been all about catching up on those lost sleep...
by Jackie Bailey | Jan 9, 2012 | Babies
I know it’s crazy. But I will find something to worry about, and so here is what I called the Tresillian Live Advice Line about today: Is my baby too settled? Ellie was a non-sleeper for twelve weeks. She would whinge during the day and not go back to sleep...
by Jackie Bailey | Dec 16, 2011 | Babies
When I read “We need to talk about Kevin,” I didn’t read it thinking that it was about a mother with PND. But the movie reviews are describing it as such. And I wonder, as someone who was diagnosed with PND in week 2 of her baby’s life, is that...
by Jackie Bailey | Dec 15, 2011 | Babies
Maternity bras are the pits. You suddenly have these ridiculously large boobs, and have to ensconce them in flimsy things that couldn’t hold a pair of empty seashells in place. Some are better than others, and various people have recommended websites to me...